On September 16 ›Nous le chant I & II‹ will be premiered by SCHOLA HEIDELBERG & ensemble aisthesis. I wrote the music for five voices and three instruments on texts by Henri Meschonnic. ›Nous le chant I & II‹ was commissioned by Walter Nußbaum, artistic director and conductor of both ensembles. The first performance will take place in Heidelberg (D). http://www.klanghd.de/index.html

I am working on a new project: the cycle Day Daily [Dag Dagelijks]. As in my earlier cycles I systematically bring up the elementary world of sound and music, usually connected with a specific, extramusical reality. Day Daily is inspired by literary, scientific and everyday interpretations of the day, and especially by phenomenological research on this topic by philosopher Chris Bremmers.

With Day Daily I want to recall the day to us, or at least the memory of that one Day amidst all days. I would also like to develop certain aspects of my music further, which is sound transmitted in space, different scorings within a piece and compositional / musical elements being in a permanent transition (liminality).

Day Daily consists of four long pieces of approximately 15-20 minutes, composed for the transitory moments of the day: midnight, daybreak, midday and nightfall. These transitory moments are linked with each other by twenty one-minute pieces, which stand for the hours of the day.

The parts of the cycle can be performed both independently and integral.

The midnight part, entitled: ›Nous le chant‹, forms a small cycle within the large one, and contains five vocal pieces on texts of the French poet Henri Meschonnic. From his collection of poems ›Nous le passage‹ I selected:

The first three are composed for five singers of Schola Heidelberg (SSATB) and a trio of ensemble aisthesis (clarinet, piano and percussion) at the request of KlangForum Heidelberg (D) and Walter Nußbaum – conductor.